5 Simple Steps To Speak English In Real Life

a few weeks ago I had a conversation

with one of my students in Brazil she

was telling me that she had been

studying English for many years she had

attended Institute’s

she had purchased books and she knew

lots of vocabulary words but for some

reason she wasn’t able to speak English

like a native English speaker basically

she wasn’t able to speak English in real

life well maybe you have experienced the

same thing you’ve been studying English

books you’ve learned lots of English

grammar and you even know lots of

vocabulary words but for some reason

you’re still not able to speak English

in real-life situations well today’s

lesson is just for you because I’m gonna

teach you five simple steps to actually

speak English in real life I’m teacher

Tiffany let’s jump right in

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all right

today’s steps are the five W’s now for

those of you who have been studying with

me for a long time you’ve heard about

the five W’s literally who what when

where and why these are the five simple

steps now I’m going to show you actually

how to use these in real-life situations

so let’s say for example we have this

situation right here a real-life

situation there are two women and it

looks like there’s some sort of

transaction well using the five W’s we

would do this who is this woman

with long hair then what is she doing

with the credit card next where are they

when is this happening and why is she

buying something now we’re gonna figure

out how to use these steps to actually

speak about this real-life situation but

I want you to follow along closely

because the fact of the matter is people

like myself native English speakers

literally think like this when we are

speaking in English you see when I was

in high school that’s right many years

ago when I was in high school we were

taught to think like this and you know

guys honestly when I was a teacher in

South Korea I realized that this is the

key for native English speakers because

I had students who were super

intelligent I mean I had students there

were doctors lawyers even some of my

high school students and university

students who weren’t necessarily

professionals yet but they were

extremely smart but they still couldn’t

speak English well and I realized that

it wasn’t because of their ability to

memorize or study because they were

smart it was the fact that no one had

taught them these five simple steps no

one had taught them the keys to connect

the information they had learned so that

they could speak

like a native English speaker so that’s

why I came up with these five simple

steps to teach to you and my students

once they followed these five simple

steps they excelled and were able to

speak English in real-life situations so

let’s go back to the picture and see how

it actually worked okay when I taught

them this tip so let’s again look closer

so we have the who the first step who is

this woman with long hair so again we’re

guessing because we’re looking at the

image I said maybe she’s a college

professor or a stylish stay-at-home mom

or even an entrepreneur now again guys

I’m just giving my guesses I don’t know

this woman but I’m looking at this image

and I’m creating an idea or I am

creating up a situation who is this

woman what is it about her that makes me

want to look at the picture so again

this is the stage where you want to

think about who the woman is okay now

the word entrepreneur you may not know

what that word is so let me explain it

to you guys the word entrepreneur means

a person who runs and operates their own

business

in other words runs organizes and

manages so the best example is me I am

actually an entrepreneur remember I told

you guys in a previous video several

months ago that I actually used to work

for NASA I was a web developer for NASA

and I loved my job but I left my job and

I actually went to South Korea and I

became an English teacher now

fast-forward 10 years I am actually

working for myself running and managing

my own English business why because I

want to teach you so again your teacher

is an entrepreneur maybe some of you are

entrepreneurs you can put it in the

comment section and I’d love to know

what your business is ok all right so

let’s go back to my screen and let’s

continue so again this woman could be a

college professor a stylish stay-at-home

mom or an entrepreneur now we have

go to the second step okay the second

step is what what is she doing with the

credit card again you can see in a

picture that she has a credit card so

maybe she’s making a payment or testing

to see if it works or swiping it quickly

again all you’re doing is coming up with

your own idea of what could possibly be

happening in this situation this is

going to lead us to speaking about the

situation okay

now the word swipe maybe you don’t know

what that word is so the word swipe

actually means to pass through an

electronic device designed to read and

process the information encoded on it so

again as you look at the picture the

lady has a card in her hand and she’s

swiping it through the electronic device

I had to swallow real quick

alright so she’s swiping it through the

device think about when you go to the

store when you go to buy something right

if you don’t have cash on you you can

use your card and swipe it and the money

is electronically taken out of your

account let me say swipe in English okay

all right so let’s go back and go to the

third step okay all right so the third

step we want to look at is duh when so

when is this happening again I’m giving

my own thoughts I’m guessing maybe it’s

the middle of the day

why because it looks like it’s bright

and it looks like everyone’s kind of

relaxed or maybe it’s a Sunday afternoon

or maybe it’s during her lunch break

again guys once again when you’re

practicing these five simple steps maybe

you’re at home alone if you’re looking

at a picture I want you to do the same

thing that I’m doing right now this

practice is teaching you how to think in

English so that when you’re in a

real-life situation you’ll naturally use

these five steps okay all right so lunch

break now I want to explain this to you

guys really quickly okay so the term

lunch break just means the time when a

person stops working or studying to have

lunch or run errands

okay now the word Aaron’s just refers to

things that you have to do outside of

the house maybe you have a list of to

do’s basically it’s a to-do list and

these are things that you must do for

example let’s say I need to get some

groceries I need to take my clothes to

the dry cleaners these are things that I

have to do outside of the house my to-do

list or my errands okay all right so we

need to move on to the next step here we

go all right our next step is where so

where are they right now we can see

there are two women in the picture but

again where could they be

maybe they are at a natural or a local

natural tea cafe or at an organic market

or even at a convention for a natural

pottery again we’re just guessing now

the word convention is an assembly or

gathering of people for one purpose

usually it’s for business or sales so

let’s say for example there’s a business

convention about computers or technology

you can say you’re going to a business

convention or a computer convention or a

technology convention a large group of

people that come together for seminars

and to actually look at new products we

call that a convention in English okay

now guys as we’re studying you’re

learning a lot and I’m so happy to teach

it remember you can learn even more with

me by joining my Academy the links on

the screen some of you are already

members but I want to help you more so

remember if you want to learn more

vocabulary or also how to think more in

English and just continue studying with

me remember to click the link in the

description okay all right now we’re

gonna move on to our next and final step

okay so here we go I’m gonna take you

back to my screen the final one is why

why is she buying something so maybe she

loves unique herbal teas or maybe the

store won’t be open tomorrow or maybe

the saleswoman the one

on the left was very persuasive now this

word persuasive I want to practice the

pronunciation with you really quickly

okay

I had another student this past week and

we were talking and I also taught him

the pronunciation and I realized that it

may be a little difficult for you all as

students so here we go / zwei SIV one

more time a little slow here we go

/ zwei SIV excellent job now one more

time quickly here we go

persuasive great job now let’s look at

the meaning of this word persuasive

because it’s a common English word that

we use here in America okay so the word

persuasive is good at convincing someone

to do or believe something through

reasoning now remember I said the

saleswoman was persuasive so again for

me as I looked at this picture I thought

to myself ah the saleswoman was really

good at convincing this lady to make a

purchase

she was very persuasive you got it okay

now guys so we’ve went through the five

simple steps as the creative side right

we’ve thought about what is going on in

this picture right now we need to

connect and speak about the picture this

is where it gets exciting okay so back

to my screen here we go so again we have

all the examples and we have the who

what when where and why I’ve written out

all of my thoughts for each of the five

W’s or each again of the five steps

alright so now let’s select let’s say

for example I select that she’s a

college professor she’s testing to see

if it works

referring to her card it’s the middle of

the day she’s out of convention for

natural pottery and the saleswoman was

very persuasive okay now again guys I

just chose these randomly right and I’m

gonna turn them into

my statement here we go all right here’s

my statement in the middle of the day a

college professor decided to stop by a

convention for natural pottery while

there she met a saleswoman who was very

persuasive

so she was testing her car to see if it

worked

now guys if I had said that at the very

beginning you may have felt like teacher

I’ll never get there because I can’t

speak like a native English speaker

well now you can because all I did was

connect the five simple steps the five

W’s and I made this very good response

or description of the picture and you

can do the same thing now I’m gonna show

you two more ways that I could describe

this picture okay so here we go I’m

gonna change it up now let’s say for

example I say she’s an entrepreneur

she’s making a payment on a Sunday

afternoon at an organic market and the

store won’t be open tomorrow so this is

what it would look like the entrepreneur

is making a payment at an organic market

she actually decided to go on a Sunday

afternoon because she heard the store

won’t be open tomorrow alright guys so

again you see what happened I just

switched it up and I still was able to

give a very good answer a good

description of this picture again using

the five simple steps the five W’s I’m

gonna show you one more example using

the information we already gathered okay

alright so here we go the last one a

stylish stay-at-home mom swiping it

quickly again referring to the card

during her lunch break at a local

natural tea cafe and she loves unique

herbal teas so we could say I saw a

stylish stay-at-home mom swiping her

card quickly at a local natural tea cafe

she told me that she went during her

lunch break because she loves unique

herbal tea

guys that is how you use these five

simple steps the five W’s who what when

where and why honestly I’m so excited

because it literally will change your

English learning journey you will start

speaking and you will start feeling so

confident when you’re in conversations

because the person listening to you will

be able to tell that your fluency has

improved because you’re giving all of

the necessary information now again guys

when you’re practicing remember this the

five W’s again who is involved in the

situation what is exactly happening when

is it happening why is it happening and

finally where is the situation taking

place now some of you may be wondering

teacher what’s the order again the five

simple steps who what when where and why

when you’re making your sentence you can

put them in any order that you’d like

okay so actually in the comment section

I want you to try make your own sentence

using the five W’s the steps okay these

steps right here now you can make a

sentence or you can make a short

description of the image we actually saw

today but guys I really hope these steps

help you I’m so excited that you guys

are finally learning how to think in

English and I will talk to you guys in

the next video

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